Slipper-hanger



` (No Model.)

E. M. GROGKETT'.

SLIPPBR HANGER.

Patented Non 16,1886.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 'i

HORACE MILTON CEOCKETT, F LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SLIPPER-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,738, dated November 16, 1886.

Application led December 21, 1885. Serial No. 186.395. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HORACE MILTON GRooK- ETT, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex, of

Vthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have indrawings, of which- Figure lis a top View, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and Fig. 3 a perspective view, of a slipper-hanger of my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter pre'- sented.

Itis constructed of a single piece of wire, bent first at its middle in the form of an eye, a. Next each part projecting from the loop is bent or curved in a semicircle or bow, b, in

a plane at a right angle tothat of the eye.L

Next thetwo parts c, beyond the bends b, are turned upward toward each other in the plane of the said eye, and are riveted orsoldered together at their ends, so as to form an eye, d.

When the article is used, it is to be hung upon a hook or a screw or nail, inserted in a wall or side of aroom, or in the door ofa wardrobe, for instance, and is to be held in place by a screw inserted through the eye and into such wall, or door, or side of a room. To tinish the hanger it may be covered with cloth or upholstered in any proper or desirable manner. Itis intended for holding a pair of shoes or slippers inserted in the bows b.

A guard, to prevent the slippers from falling-out of the hanger, may be extended across it directly in rear of its bends b, such guard being a piece of wire, d', secured at its ends to the outer extremities of the two bows.

'I clainl- A l. As anew or improved article of manu- 40 facture for use as setlorth, theslipper-hanger, l substantially as described, composed of a piece of wire bent at its middle to form in it the eye a, and thence in opposite directions ina plane in opposite directions in a plane at a ,right l angle to that of the eye to form in it the two semicircles or bends b, and thence upward in the plane of the'eye, and having its parts c so bent upward incl-inedtoward each other and united at their ends, all being essentially vas 5o represented.

HORACEMILTON CROKETT.

rVt/"itnesses:

B. H. EDDY, R. B. TOEEEY. 

